Description

Pre-order starts January 12th: if you pre-order, you will get a random volume of Troublemaker Firestarter.
Books will mail out on January 26th.

Through pop culture references and gay bar cocktails, Erica Leslie Weidner weaves together an exploration on gender, identity, and the notion of the Self. Each short, yet vivid poem encapsulates memories that have shaped Erica’s journey through exploring her gender, spread across their past and their now. identity sbagliato depicts becoming, an act not only mirrored across all queer folk, but one that uniquely belongs to Erica. With poignant lines like “so I push for my forgotten memories of paradise lost, certain that somewhere in there is the way I return to that garden,” Weidner summons a yearning innate to gender exploration; in identity sbagliato, Erica Leslie Weidner beckons readers along as she journeys through hatching an egg.

— arushi (aera) rege, author of exit wound (no point of entry), BROWN GIRL EPIPHANY, and suburban suicides.

Effervescent at its core with a little smudged lipstick around the edges, Erica Leslie Weidner’s identity sbagliato sees the truth of gender emerge from behind notes of sweet vermouth and Campari. “That damn night”—a negroni-induced fever dream—plays on repeat as Weidner chronicles the early stages of exploring gender identity, skillfully utilizing a variety of poetic forms to circle the same pressing internal questions. identity sbagliato is a collection for anyone who has ever felt the beautiful ache of queerness in their body and not known what to do with it; furthermore, it is proof that we don’t need to know everything to celebrate it anyway.

—nat raum, author of with gasoline and fruits of the valley.